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The Fallacies of Religious Clerics
- The Fallacies of Religious Clerics
- Contents
- Introduction
- What Is a Fallacy?
- What Is Bias?
- The Roots of Religious Clerics’ Fallacies
- Methods Used to Prove That a Religion Is True
- Methods for Strengthening People’s Faith in Their Beliefs
- Methods Religious Clerics Use to Elevate Themselves and Their Religion
- Presenting Religious Texts and Teachings as the Highest Form of Thought
- Siding with Social and Political Critics
- Presenting Themselves as Familiar with Modern Science
- Misrepresenting Critics as Ignorant
- Expressing Contempt for Opposing Views
- Supporting Everything That Is Good
- Referring to the Hidden Meaning of Religious Rules
- Taking Satisfaction in the Failures of Empirical Science
- Discouraging Questions About What We Do Not Understand
- Showing Scientific and Logical Rigor When Criticizing Other Beliefs
- Clerics’ Psychological Methods of Responding
- Using Claims to Explain Why the Promises of Their Religion Have Not Come True
- Referring the Critic to a Hypothetical Answer
- Making the Critic’s Questions Seem Sacred and Untouchable
- Claiming That the Critic Is Merely Being Influenced by Others
- Diverting the Questioner’s Attention from a Weak Point of the Religion to Its Strong Points
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